Access to Justice: Effective Assistance of Counsel at Bail
You may contact Jenny Smith, the course librarian, for research-related questions at jsmith@law.umaryland.edu.
Primary Law | Forms | Federal and State Procedural Resources | General Trial | Motions | Discovery | Evidence | Sentencing | Electronic Databases, Journals | Related Websites | Lexis Searches | Westlaw Searches
Primary Sources: Statutory Materials
Statutes relating to criminal law and criminal procedure exist at both the federal and state levels.
Some useful electronic sources of statutory and legislative materials are linked below. For more information on federal legislative research, including federal legislative history, see Chapter 5 and Chapter 10 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research. For more information on state legislative research, including Maryland legislative history, see Chapter 9 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
Federal
- THOMAS
- Public laws (93rd Congress (1973-74) to present)
- Bill texts (101st Congress (1989-90) to present)
- Floor debates from the daily Congressional Record (101st Congress (1989-90) to present)
- Committee Reports (104th Congress (1995-96) to present)
- GPO Access - Legislative Branch Resources
- House Report 108-316 on Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003
Maryland
Lexis
- Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct
- Maryland Rules Governing Admission to the Bar, Rule 16, Legal Assistance by Law Students
- Michie's Maryland Code Annotated, Constitution, Court Rules & ALS, Combined (MDCODE)
- USCS - United States Code Service: Code, Const, Rules, Conventions & Public Laws (USCODE)
- US - CIS Legislative Histories
Westlaw:
- West's Annotated Code of Maryland (Annotated) (MD-ST-ANN)
- Maryland Legislative Service (MD-LEGIS)
- Federal Statutes (USCA)
Primary Sources: Administrative Materials
For more information on researching Maryland administrative law, see Chapter 9 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
For more information on researching federal administrative law, see Chapter 6 and Chapter 10 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
- Code of Federal Regulations
- List of Sections Affected
- Federal Register
- Code of Maryland Regulations
- Maryland Register
Primary Sources: Judicial Materials
- Cornell Legal Information Institute
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Maryland Judiciary
- Maryland Rules of Procedure (free through Lexis)
Secondary Sources: Practice Materials
Handbooks, guides, manuals, sample forms and other secondary materials provide an overview of criminal procedure and pre-trial practice. The following is a brief list of some secondary practice materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. For additional practice materials, please check the library's Catalog, as well as Lexis and Westlaw.
Books
- 31 ways to winning advocacy [videorecording]
- ALI-ABA’s practice checklist manual on trial preparation II : checklists, forms, and advice from The practical litigator
- Art of Oral Advocacy
- Brief writing & oral argument
- Federal bail and detention handbook
- Legal writing and other lawyering skills
- Manual for complex litigation
- McElhaney's trial notebook
- Personal liberty and community safety: pretrial release in the criminal court
- Persuasive written and oral advocacy in trial and appellate courts
- Poverty Law Manual online
- Pretrial
- Pretrial discovery : strategy and tactics
- Pretrial litigation in a nutshell
- Pretrial motions in criminal prosecutions
- Pretrial release programming : issues and trends
- Punishment before trial: an organizational perspective of felony bail processes
- Remand decisions and offending on bail: evaluation of the Bail Process Project
- Two classes of accused: a study of bail and detention in American justice
- Writing and Analysis in the Law
Books: Maryland
- Criminal Practice and Procedure in the District Court of Maryland
- Discovery under the Maryland rules
- Maryland criminal law : practice and procedure
- Maryland evidence: 2002 courtroom manual, including complete coverage of the Maryland rules of evidence
- Maryland Law Encyclopedia
- Maryland Practice
- Maryland rules commentary
- Trial Handbook for Maryland Lawyers
Forms
- American Jurisprudence Legal Forms 2d.
- American
Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms Annotated.
- Access through Westlaw
- Federal District Court Forms (Maryland District)
- District Court and Circuit Court Forms
- Maryland Criminal Procedure Forms and Analysis
- Maryland District Court Forms
- Maryland practice forms
Lexis:
- MD CLE Publications, Combined (MICPEL)
- Maryland Matthew Bender Publications combined (MDMBGR)
- MD - Martindale-Hubbell(R) Law Digest (MDDIG)
Westlaw:
- Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL) CLE (MD-CLE)
- Maryland Jury Instructions - Criminal (MD-JICRIM)
- Maryland Law Encyclopedia (MD-ENC)
- Maryland Law of Confessions (MDCONF)
- Trial Handbook for Maryland Lawyers (MDPRAC-TRH)
Federal and State Procedural Resources
- Criminal procedure
- Criminal procedure: constitutional limitations in a nutshell
- Federal Local Court Rules
- Federal Practice and Procedure (Access through Westlaw)
- Moore's Federal Practice (Access through Lexis)
Maryland Procedural Resources
- Basic Civil Trial Practice Pre-Trial (Access through Westlaw)
- Maryland Rules (Access through Westlaw; Access through Lexis)
- Maryland Rules Commentary (Access through Lexis)
- Maryland Rules of Court. Federal (Access through Westlaw)
- Maryland Rules of Court. State (Access through Westlaw)
- Pleading Causes of Action in Maryland (Access through Westlaw)
General Trial
- American Jurisprudence Trials (Access through Westlaw)
- Effective use of courtroom technology : a lawyer's guide to pretrial and trial
- Federal criminal jury instructions
- Modern federal jury instructions, criminal: pattern jury instructions
- Federal criminal trials
- Federal trial handbook, criminal
- Goldstein Trial Technique
- Manual on recurring problems in criminal trials
- Questioning Techniques and Tactics (Access through WestLaw)
- Trial Communication
Skills
General Trial - Maryland
- Maryland criminal jury instructions and commentary
- Maryland criminal pattern jury instructions
- Maryland trial judges' benchbook
- Trial handbook for Maryland lawyers
- Trying the case
Motions
- Motion Practice (Aspen; Access through Lexis)
- Motions Practice (MICPEL)
Discovery
- Bender's
Forms of Discovery
(Access through Lexis: Interrogatories (Volumes 1 to 10a) and Treatise (Volumes 11 to 16)) - Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques
- Discovery Practice (Access through Lexis )
- Pattern Interrogatories
- Pretrial Discovery: Strategy and Tactics
Discovery - Maryland
- 2nd Annual Alan J. Goldstein Memorial Program 1993 : "Criminal discovery in Maryland."
- Taking and Defending Depositions: A Handbook for Maryland Lawyers (Access through Westlaw)
Evidence
- American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts (Access through Westlaw)
- Courtroom criminal evidence
- Criminal evidence
- Criminal evidentiary foundations
- Evidentiary Foundations (Access through Lexis)
- Federal Rules of Evidence (Access through Westlaw)
- How to Prepare Witnesses for Trial
- McCormick on Evidence
- Weinstein's
Federal Evidence: Commentary on Rules of Evidence for the
United States Courts
(Access through Lexis) - Wharton's criminal evidence
Evidence - Maryland
- Maryland and Federal Evidence
- Maryland Evidence: Courtroom Manual (Access through Lexis)
- Maryland Evidence Handbook (Access through Lexis)
- Art of advocacy: opening statement
- Art of advocacy: summation
- Closing argument: the art and the law
- Introduction to advocacy : research, writing, and argument
- Modern trial advocacy
- Persuasion: the litigator's art
- Trial advocacy in a nutshell
- Trial communication skills
- Law of sentencing, corrections, and prisoners' rights in a nutshell
- Practice under the federal sentencing guidelines
- Sentencing advocacy resource manual II
Electronic Databases, Journals
Subscription Databases
- Hein Online
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
- Legaltrac
- BNA's U.S. Law Week/Supreme Court Today
- BNA's Criminal Law Reporter
- CQ Reporter, By Topic
- CQ Weekly, Legal Affairs Topic
CALI Lessons
Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is restricted to University of Maryland School of Law faculty, staff and student use only. Click here to get the CALI password (you will need to enter your Blackboard login and password).
Electronic Journals
- American Criminal Law Review
- American Journal of Criminal Law (1997- )
- Crime and Delinquency
- Criminal Behavior and Mental Health
- Criminal Justice and Behavior
- Criminal Justice Ethics
- Criminal Justice Policy Review
- Criminal Law Reporter
- Law and Contemporary Problems
- Psychology, Crime & Law
- San Diego Justice Journal
- Women and Criminal Justice
Agencies, Non-governmental Organizations, and More Electronic Resources
Governmental Agencies
- Federal Bureau of Investigations
- Federal Judicial Center
- Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland
- Office of the Public Defender - State of Maryland
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
Related Websites
- 360 Degrees: Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- ABA Criminal Justice Section
- American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland
- American Probation and Parole Association
- Association of Federal Defense Attorneys
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice Policy & Info Center
- Cornell Legal Information Institute - Wex - a legal dictionary and encyclopedia
- Criminal Bar Association
- Findlaw
- Human Rights Watch
- Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
- Justice Learning
- Justice Research and Statistics Association
- Justice Technology Information Network
- Maryland Crime Vicitms Resource Center
- Peoples Law Library of Maryland
- Maryland State Bar Association
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- National Center for State Courts, Criminal Justice Topic
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Open Society Institute
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland
- Public Justice Center
- Sentencing Project
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- State Justice Institute
- Urban Institute
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